Every organization needs a plan in place to recover key business processes following an incident which needs to match its priorities and expectations. This can be achieved through successful business continuity planning which is effectively a proactive incident management programme that is driven by business requirements.

The role of auditing is to assess and evaluate the effectiveness of the activities and functions of an organization against standards, regulations, best practice and organizational objectives. It can then provide advice and assurance as required by management.

Using risk as its basic evaluation tool and looking at those threats identified by the business as relevant provides audits with a unique insight into how organizations operate and how things may be improved or simplified.

Based on the new international standard for business continuity BS ISO 22301, this book combines personal experience and extensive research to produce an essential aid to developing a successful business continuity management programme.

It is a practical guide to using the insights that an auditor can provide through scrutiny and advice to help ensure that the plans decided on by management will achieve their planned and stated objectives.

About the Author

John Silltow has worked extensively in IT, audit and security across the UK and Europe. He has undertaken business continuity and disaster recovery reviews in private, public and for not-for-profit organizations. John has actively engaged in promoting the management, security and recovery of information assets. He has authored a number of books and articles and has presented at various international conferences. He has also been the editor of three magazines concerned with audit, security and control and currently works as a consultant, trainer and writer.